Incident Summary:

02/25/2008: A teenage suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest right next to Lt. Gen. Mushtaq Ahmad Baig's vehicle at a traffic light in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Eight individuals were killed, including Lt. Gen. Mushtaq Ahmad Baig, Pakistan’s Surgeon General, and 20 civilians were injured in this attack. Property damage also resulted from this attack. This appears to have been a targeted attack specifically aimed at killing Lt. Gen. Baig; consequently, this was the highest ranking officer killed in Pakistan since the “War on Terror” began. No group claimed responsibility for this attack. The attack was likely in retaliation for operations against Islamic militants along the Afghan border.